CONTENTS:
Context - This page was sent to 150-200 embassies in Washington D.C. one year prior to the advent of Corona Virus.
UN & Description
Pursuit of Happiness
Projects
A Letter to Xi Jinping
Max Planck and Albert Einstein
Context:
Societal Pressure-Cookers:
If the valve in a pressure cooker is blocked, the cooker will blow up if heated. Likewise: From 1770 to 1918, the pressure of demands for individual rights blew up the (dominance of) monarchies: American War of Independence (Revolutionary War), French Revolution, World War I. Before these full explosions, however, there always takes place a period of
Societal Decay:
The 1776 American Declaration of Independence contains the phrase:
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness:
Life and Liberty can be guaranteed by a suitably constructed government, Happiness not. But what does it help if people are alive and free, but miserable?
When the pressure in a cooker builds up, its material starts to weaken, Likewise: If unhappiness in a society builds up, society starts to fall apart: Drug abuse, mass shootings, crimes, inefficient institutions, increasing ignorance, cynicism, missing frankness, distrust, thinking in the box, high stress levels, attention-deficit, hyperactivity, depression, mood swings, anger, societal discord, and so on.
Happiness:
Its pursuit is hard, but good work. You will not become happy by getting drunk or high or just reading through this website. This site outlines a program. The video page STORIES and the testimonial page contain some of its results.
Efficiency:
Happiness and (global) efficiency are synonymous. Happy people are efficient, just as happy cows give more milk. To be efficient, you need to mobilize your unconscious mind. Our conscious mind gets too easily confused and misguided. To mobilize your unconscious mind, you need to clean yourself from ideologies by using your critical thinking (informal logic).
Ideologies:
You need to clean yourself from ideologies for two reasons. The first is societal: You might start fighting with people, who hold different convictions, instead of working with them. The second is psychological: Your unconscious mind will reject the question you are asking if the question is infused with an ideology. Your unconscious mind will consider it babbling.
UN & Description
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DESCRIPTION OF WHAT WAS DESTROYED:
Effective Reasoning for Everybody
Foundations
Our body consists of two parts, soft tissue and hard tissue (skeleton). The soft tissue needs the hard as a support. Likewise, effective reasoning consists of two parts, a soft part dealing with soft and elusive facts and a supportive hard part dealing with pure fact-free reasoning (logic).
In a body, both parts are integrated: The hard part is permeated by blood vessels and nerves. Likewise, the hard logic of effective reasoning should be permeated by facts and should be used to penetrate them to find the objective truth in them.
This is the essential task of tribunals, science, and personal life. Humans need effective reasoning. However, it is not available. Without it, the survival of our species is in danger:
Our history is a history of wasting biological and natural resources by perpetual, sometimes global, warfare. Since 1945, this procedure has become too dangerous. Although resources grow, they increase less rapidly than the global population. This necessitates saving available and creating new resources, which entails a need for effective personal reasoning on a global level.
Humans box others and themselves—and then insist on the classification whether it is right or wrong: Jessidis are devil-worshippers, Moslems are terrorists, Bismarck was a Nazi, Germans are Nazis, Americans are capitalists, and so on. I am a Communist, I am a Republican, I am an alcoholic, I am a good Christian, and so on. Boxing people makes them into paper targets for others, who boxed themselves differently. Only reasoning can get people out of the boxes.
Outlook: Our current systems are outdated and are beginning to fail. Letting them develop on their own is too dangerous. Global planning is also dangerous because we might do it wrong. To do it right, we should think through the following scenario: Phase A: Humankind has almost destroyed Earth and themselves. The damage is irreversible. Phase B: A representative selection of 1 million survivors enters the huge spaceship Kepler to travel to exoplanet Kepler 443b, which about 2500 light years away. How has the spaceship to be constructed and how must the humans behave if some of their offspring can reach Kepler 443b? This way, we have a chance to prevent that spaceship Earth and its inhabitants enter phase A.
For the overall value of my work as seen by others go to my website https://drkroiss.com and click on TESTIMONIALS.
Mathematics
The book LINCOS (lingua cosmica, cosmic language) is an early attempt to send terrestrial knowledge to extraterrestrials. The vehicle of such attempts cannot be language. It consists of mathematics and graphics. This means that a form of mathematics, which is language-free and is supported by graphics, is possible. It could be sent to terrestrial aliens, circumventing the need for translation.
I hand-wrote several 10 000 pages of personalized books for several hundred individual students to create a mathematics with the above goals in mind.
Description of results: All students went from a failing to a top grade and never needed help again (compare drkroiss.com).
The mathematics after 1880 needs to be separated from previous mathematics as much as the history after 1770 needs to be separated from previous history because both are products of revolutions. Revolutions are not kind to the efforts of past periods. When the revolutionaries recognize that they damaged themselves by their radicalism, they become more friendly towards previous efforts and “rehabilitate” them.
I received help from Rudolf Carnap, Karl Popper, Paul Feyerabend, Morris Kline, Wolfgang Stegmüller, Jerry Vaughan (UNC-G), Dick Hodel (Duke), Serge Lang (Yale) and from classical 18th and 19th century and modern authors—AND MOST—FROM MY STUDENTS. Some of them got a feeling for mathematics very fast, such as John Seymour: It took him 4 hours to go from a 65 to a 105 in calculus: TESTMONIALS on https://drkroiss.com .
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Psychotherapy
JUST ONE EXAMPLE:
The mathematically INCOMMENSURABLE or psychologically INCOMPATIBLE / INCOMMUNICADO, short “INCOM”, creates problems across many fields: Politics, marriages, physics, mathematics, and so on.
It is not unknown that some marriages end in murder. I have had couples who were getting to this point. I have even known a lawyer, who caused it. She incited her female client to so many mean actions, that the husband shot his ex. In such cases, psychologists refuse to do marriage counseling with the partners. They send them individually to different therapists with the excuse of needing to maintain confidentiality. Why is this an excuse? They are not concerned about this problem in low-intensity conflicts. The result of dividing the couple up to different therapists is sometimes that the therapists empathize with their respective clients so much that marriage- turns into divorce-counseling.
BUT THE ORIGINAL CONFLICT REMAINS UNSOLVED.
INCOMMENSURABILITY: Make a square having 4 sides of 1 meter each. Take a ruler, which has only the 0-, 1- and 2- meter marks on it and “measure” the distance between two opposite corners. You will find that this diagonal is between 1 and 2 meters. To get a better estimate, divide the distance between 0 and 1 into 2 equal parts. Make marks at = 1.5 and “measure” the diagonal again. You will get a number between 1 and . To get a better estimate, make marks at and “measure” again. You will see that the diagonal is somewhere between . You can continue this with fourths, fifths, sixth,…and so on, forever—you will never find a mark, which measures the diagonal exactly. The number, which measures the length of the diagonal exactly is an alien to the numbers we are used to, the fractions or rational numbers. These aliens are called irrational.
People will often call others, they are not used to, irrational or alien and exclude them.
In this math class, a native American mentioned—after the professor had finished his obscure mathematical diatribe— that his tribe believed that the earth rested on the back of a turtle. One of the students sneered and asked:” Where does this turtle rest on?” The “Indian” said: “On the back of another,…and so on, forever.” The class broke out into loud laughter. I told them: “You are such idiots. You swallowed the “…and so on, forever” from the professor without any derisive laughter. It looks like your sense of truth is heavily biased.”
INCOM Speech: “You are fighting about virtually everything since your previous therapist recommended to you that you should communicate more. Before, you did not talk to each other at all, which was a much better idea. Imagine, I lead you (Jane) into a dark room and you see a unit square, which has sides of 1 meter. Then, you (John) go in and see a circle of diameter 1 meter. You think that you saw two very different things. But that is not the case. Both of you saw a cylinder of diameter and height 1 meter –Jane saw it from the front as a square, John from above as a circle. Humans construct different cross-sections of a higher-dimensional reality, which might look and feel very differently. But we must learn to live in the same common higher-dimensional reality.”
INCOM Poisoning: The Austrian Franz Stangl, who poisoned 900 thousand Jews, and his interviewer Gitta Sereny were psychologically incompatible people, who communicated deeply. Stangl died from the talks. Sereny almost did, so she told me. She said: “If I had known what I chose to get into, I would not have done it.”
I received help from Anna Freud, Thomas Szasz, Michael Scriven, Herschel Allan Dye, Nicholas Vacc, the people above—MY PATIENTS—AND ABOVE ALL, MY WIFE CHRISTINE AND MY DAUGHTER DORIS. They were good for my mental health in the tough times, which we had to go through. See: NATIONAL INTEREST on https://drkroiss.com
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I have worked with many kids and their issues. A typical issue is that of a test is looming which they are afraid of. So, they pretend to be sick. However, they feel guilty about it and do not like this feeling. Then they convince themselves that they are sick indeed: “Don’t I feel nauseous? Don’t I feel sick in my stomach? Don’t I feel hot? I am sweating! I must be sick! It’s not just a deception! It’s true. I am sick.”
Why do they feel guilty? It’s called conscience. What is that? They are stepping on a path, where everybody finally slips and falls: Separation from reality. That is really going to hurt you—not just others, which the usual connotation of conscience is.
Currently, I am in bankruptcy proceedings. I discovered that the court procedures with its detailed national and local forms and procedures constitute a sophisticated lie detector to prevent that debtors lie about remaining assets, which could be used to pay creditors. I should tell you what the trustee told my creditors: INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION FOR ABUSE. NO PROPERTY APPEARS TO BE AVAILABLE. In short: IT APPEARS THAT I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO GIVE TO CREDITORS AND THAT I DO NOT LIE ABOUT THAT.
How did I get into that situation? With all the forms, I also filed a cover letter, in which I declared under oath that we were the victims of OFFICIAL CRIMES. In paragraph 2, I define them as:
Crimes by officials. A citizen, who has been a victim of such a crime, has very little chance to get support from lawyers or other officials.
And continue:
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BACKGROUND
Our family has two citizenships: GERMAN (born) and AMERICAN (naturalized). We could immigrate with a so-called NATIONAL INTEREST WAIVER, which waived sponsorship by American citizens or entities. I founded the above institute and was its CEO for 20 years. The events described in Document 2 damaged our health and finances so much, that the impact of the German crimes could not be buffered. My wife died from them, I almost did. My daughter Doris, who had to watch all this for about two years, is shell-shocked. She is slowly getting better because I have progressed in health. I only have left: Diabetes, pain, mobility and hearing problems. These issues combined with my age might make it necessary that Doris be of help with this petition.
Because we (my wife and I) thought that we would both die, we decided to give everything away. However, the institute still needs support for the property, which it now owns, as well as for the Institute’s operation. That is why I donated the rest of my money to it. My daily living expenses are covered by Doris, who has recently become professor at UNC-G and CEO of the Institute.
Document 2 is a letter to the Governor of North Carolina. Documents 1, 3 and 4 describe the German official crimes. All these documents are public and can be found:
CASE #: 24-10626
U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Middle District of North Carolina
101 S. Edgeworth Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
I told the court that I would appeal any of its decisions if one of the documents were suppressed. All these documents sent to Minister Kretschmann of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, the American Ambassador Gutmann remained without answer. Of course, I did not find any lawyers, who would face the risk of governmental retaliation and not receive any compensation because I was also financially damaged. When I sent the documents directly to the Supreme Court, they were returned because they did not come from the lower courts. Prof. Dr. Harbarth, “LLM. (Yale)” added as part of the title, President of the German Constitutional Court did not even answer.
Before, I had tried to file PRO SE in two cases: I gave the summons to the court for the police/Sheriff to deliver to the defendant, paid a fee, got a receipt for it. In the first case, I had to ask Congressman Coble after months for help. In the second case, the summons was never properly delivered:
https://www.drkroiss.com , NATIONAL INTEREST
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Let me go back to the issue of lying and (self-)deception. The USA and Germany believe that they are democracies. That is what the former German Democratic Republic believed, too. Why are they in fact dictatorship? A dictatorship is established in a country if there is no protection against official crimes. The USA believe in addition, that they are a representative democracy. That is hardly possible with a two-party system. If one party wins a presidential election, the Senate and the House, the members of the other party do not feel represented. In Germany we have a structural problem, too: There is no real separation of power. It looks so on the surface. However, the government institution, which attacked us, when we were most vulnerable, pays teachers, police, judges, prosecutors, tenured politicians and government employees from the lowest to the highest rank. It is a remnant of the Third Reich. Hitler used it to keep members of the power structure in line: Who pays the piper, calls the tune. In addition to being no democracy, the German Government has much more power against their citizens than the American dictatorship. No film maker in Germany would ever dare to make movies about the corruption and deception and lying of the system like the Americans.
Let me just say that I am not principally against dictatorships. The Romans chose a dictator when Hannibal roamed through Italy. However, there is no necessity for a dictatorship in the USA or Germany. It is just more comfortable for the powerful. However, it is quite uncomfortable for all others and leads to social unrest and a gradual deterioration of the system because its correction has become impossible. If one or both countries get in real trouble, the rest of the world might, too.
I filed a separate complaint against the Germans under the case identifier vsbbfwqc. I mention them again because they are part of the total picture. I began my letter to the Governor of North Carolina this way:
Dear Governor,
Ancient siege warfare was conducted in two stages:
PHASE 1 (The Siege itself): Surrounding the fortress to cut off supplies. Then first parallel, second parallel,…inching ever closer to the fortress, bombarding, starving, and sickening of the defenders, finally breaching the walls. This phase could take a lot of time.
PHASE 2 (Storm of the fortress): Storm Troopers, different from those having conducted the siege itself, enter the fortress and kill the defenders. This phase is of relatively short duration.
My family came from Germany and lived in North Carolina ever since. We went through these two phases. Phase 1 was conducted by North Carolinians, Phase 2 by Germans. Phase 1 left us relatively poor and sick.
Phase 2 killed my wife of 55 years after torturing her in front of our eyes for two months. This phase is described in the package to Ambassador Gutmann. It contains historical material on the Nazis, which had created the institution, which tortured and killed my wife.
Nazis had no desire for separation of power. The organization, which I am talking about, pays the salaries and 70% of the medical costs of teachers, police judges, prosecutors, professors, and politicians. This would be the ideal organization for any Mafia Boss. And this was the true nature of the Nazis: They were a Mafia State. The ideology of racial supremacy was their justification for murder and plunder.
However, if a simple soldier murdered and plundered, he would be shot. Why? There were many simple soldiers. Had they been allowed to plunder, there would have been nothing left for the big shots. And did the latter plunder and murder!
My wife was like a simple soldier, a retired teacher. She had had the audacity to need emergency treatment and incur quite some medical costs. She could get her punishment because—as I said—Phase 1 had left us “relatively poor and sick.” We had no resources left.
And now: ADIO SAS, STO KALO as the Greek say
Pursuit of Happiness
HAPPINESS
Happiness is dependent on the fulfillment of needs and the absence of pain. It is like a system check before a plane takes off. If all the components are in order, the overall evaluation is GO! In the case of humans, this means HAPPINESS.
SCIENCE
We have two periods: the classical (up to 1900) and the modern. During the classical period, pure mathematics and applied mathematics (physics, surveying, navigation, astronomy) were taught to the general public, advancing their reasoning skills. Mathematics was just like an exercise machine, not important in itself. What was crucial was the result of the exercise, namely mental fitness, which could be applied to other areas. Modern mathematics is useless in this regard. Mathematics now uses an artificial logic (formal, mathematical, or symbolic logic), which is good for computers, but not for humans. In addition, modern mathematics is empty in comparison to classical mathematics. It has lost its value as a mental exercise machine.
EVERYDAY LIFE
Science teaches generalities. Our life, however, is composed of highly specific events. The mental fitness acquired through classical mathematics can be used to deal with the singular issues and circumstances of everyday life.
IDEOLOGIES
If one person has one ideology (worldview, “personality”) and the second person a conflicting one and these two people start talking to each other, then the communication will turn into a fight. Communication is only possible if you question your ideology and replace it by the informal logic of classical mathematics.
THE CONSCIOUS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND
The conscious mind is good for relatively simple things. It can, for example, be used for cleaning up the solutions created by the unconscious mind. The conscious mind cannot deal with the complex, ever-changing issues of everyday life. For this, we need the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind needs input that is clear, simple, and free from ideology to come up with solutions.
Projects
1. WEBSITE
To avoid the impression that what I am talking about is just theoretical babbling, I want to report some projects of mine and illustrate them with examples. These might have the potential to encourage your own projects. This website is written with exactly this intention. I am not out for “fame” or money. I have often walked away from both in order to do something meaningful.
2. APPLIED LOGIC
a) Finding Positives
In my childhood, I grew up in a country butcher-shop. I loved animals and still do. Bubi, the cat on the home-page, is a dear friend of mine. In this butcher shop, the boss of which was my step-grandfather, a crazy cowardly brute, animals were killed and processed. Cows and calves went quietly to their deaths, whereas the pigs screamed at the top of their lungs until the shots rang out. Then their throats were cut. When they had bled out, their heads were cut off and their intestines removed. They were skinned and cleft in half after being hanged on hooks.
At the age of seven, I started to have this recurring nightmare: Now I was processed like an animal. I was afraid to fall asleep. I inevitably did, however. This torture went on for weeks until I finally had enough:“What is the problem, Bubi (meaning myself, namely LITTLE BOY)? When you experience this, you think it’s really happening. However, you are only dreaming. So, how can you find out? Actually, when this happens to you, it means that you are just dreaming. PEOPLE, UNLIKE ANIMALS, ARE NOT BUTCHERED THIS WAY IN REALITY. So, when you are butchered, you can tell yourself that you are dreaming and then open your eyes.” This worked beautifully. When it happened again, I told myself that I was just dreaming, even went along with the experience for a while, until the dream became too much for my nerves, and then opened my eyes. After a few times, the dream disappeared.
b) Avoiding Negatives
We sometimes meet people, who are takers and never givers. They are like vampires or locusts. They exude an overpowering air of superiority and competence. Individuals and businesses should learn how to alert themselves in spite of—actually BECAUSE OF—their intoxicating impression management.
3. MATHEMATICS
When you read through this website, you will get the impression that I am a math-freak and, therefore, consider mathematics a cure-all. WRONG! I had not only math-anxiety, but math-panic. Similar to drinking a repulsive, but healing potion, I took in mathematics, first the modern and then the classical one, to distill from it critical thinking (informal and practical logic).
4. UNCONSCIOUS MIND
a) Test of Existence
I always had the impression that there was something guiding myself, sometimes against my conscious intentions. To find out whether there was an unconscious mind, I took an advanced doctoral course in a field, which was totally alien to me and required a lot of technical prerequisites, none of which I had. The professor, an international expert, could have talked Marsian. I did not understand a word, which was quite painful. I just listened with my stomach. After weeks of suffering through the class sessions and related homework, I sometimes let out a verbal burp, not thinking about it before. The professor looked at me and said:“Gerhard, this is brilliant!” I had no idea why this had been brilliant, barely understood what I just had said. At the end of the class, the professor offered me an assistantship, which I did not take. I had had enough of this field of study.
b) Language Learning
I once had read all the books in English on a guy called Alberoni (1664- 1752). The only remaining books were in Italian, which I did not understand. I bought three used books on Italian: A thick textbook, a book on grammar, and a vocabulary book. I read through them in about two months, again listening with my stomach, not really learning it. Then I could understand about 90% of the following books:
Pietro Castagnoli: Il Cardinale Giulio Alberoni (3 volumes, Piacenza & Roma, 1929-1932)
Giovanni Felice Rossi: Cento Studi Sul Cardinale Alberoni Con Altri Specialisti Internationali (4 thick volumes, Piacenza, Collegio Alberoni, MCMLXXVIII).
c) Sharing Reasoning Skills
When I am talking to people, I am thinking aloud, spontaneously, without previous deliberation. This procedure allows them to check my reasoning, instills trust, and shares reasoning. And, additionally, the process is fun.
5. REALISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
a) Psychological Theories
A simple behavior such as crying can have many reasons: Sadness, happiness, hormones, manipulation, anger, onions, illness, or probably some other unknown “factors.” How do you find out which is the true one? You have to discover the context, in which the behavior occurs. However, contexts change with places, cultures, over history, and individuals. There cannot be any theories, which incorporate all these contexts. We have to think on our own, “deeply,” that is, use our unconscious minds.
b) “Biographies”
I gave you a description of the books on Alberoni to indicate the lower magnitude of the amount of data necessary to get a somewhat correct picture of an individual biography. If you sit with a live person, however, the amount data (and potential validity) is much larger and can be only absorbed (and established) by your unconscious mind-- and in cooperation with the other person. To limit the complexity, psychological theories are used and validity is lost.
6. MEDICAL ISSUES
a) Others
Clients never came to me to address their medical issues. However, sometimes these problems came up. To my surprise, spontaneous self- healing of wounds and illnesses occurred, which their medical treatment alone was insufficient to cure. When “mental” issues were resolved, energy was freed to take care of the medical problems. A part of the issues was mental avoidance and the belief that “psychology” could do nothing (see the video THE TOULMIN ARGUMENT on the page STORIES).
b) Myself
The following is to demonstrate what I mean with avoidance and how to get rid of it. The basis of avoidance is anxiety. We become afraid if something is wrong with us medically and move away from it mentally.
Each spring, I had a certain feeling in my throat and did not look at it. After some time, the feeling turned into pain. I could neither talk nor swallow. Strep throat! Antibiotics! No money for two weeks! This occurred for years. However, when a had cancelled a client because I had this undefined, but familiar feeling again, I told myself THIS IS IT! NOT AGAIN! So, I looked at this feeling, which was behind a cloud, into which I went, dissolving it. The perception became clearer and clearer. No so-called healing thoughts! Pure and direct perception only. I found the place of the feeling. It was located in the middle of the left side of my throat. Then: SURPRISE! A spotlight was switched on that covered the location. The light was stationary at first for a while. Then: SURPRISE AGAIN! It started moving up my throat to my left ear, stayed there for a while, moved slowly down until it reached my chest, went to its right side, slowly up a way into my throat, stayed there, and then CLICK switched off. I avoided strep throat this time and never got it again.
7. THE ONLY WAY TO GET HAPPINESS
It will not happen without you. It is up to you now.
I am done with my work.
A Letter to Xi Jinping
International Institute for Critical Thinking Inc.
November 28, 2021
Xi Jinping
President of the People’s Republic of China
`Dear Mr. President,
My whole life I have thought about how mankind can achieve stability. Here are the results:
STABILITY
Monarchies are not stable since they are too dependent on the personalities of the monarchs.
Democracies are not stable because they are governed by special interests.
Fascist governments are not stable because they are irrational.
Communist governments seem to be unstable, too, e.g., Soviet Union, Albania.
REASONS
Communist governments come to power through revolutions (wars).
The leaders in war become the leaders in peace. In the case of the Soviet Union and Albania, the leaders continued the war—not only against external enemies, but also against their own populations, making the latter quite unhappy.
The goal of a communist revolution is the happiness of the people. If this happiness were achieved, the communist government would also be stable because HAPPY PEOPLE DO NOT MAKE TROUBLE.
HAPPINESS
Before take-off, a pilot will make a security check of the plane. If all systems are in order, the plane is ready for take-off.
A person is happy if all her/his systems are working properly.
To find out why the systems in a human being are not working properly, let us look at a computer. When it is new, it is just working fine. Its central processing unit (CPU) can secure the cooperation of other subsystems optimally. Over time, this relationship deteriorates because the computer becomes filled with garbage. Programs are needed to free the CPU again.
People make themselves unhappy because they act on silly ideas and hurt themselves or others. These silly ideas need to be cleaned out by the individual. It is done by logical reasoning. Logical reasoning can be derived from mathematics. By teaching the logic of mathematics and of its development, the individual is provided the means to free the human CPU. This amounts to an increase in intelligence, from which both the individual and the State profit.
Mathematics is a specific evolutionary advantage of mankind. No other species has it. Each other species uses its advantages on a mass scale—only humans do not.
Communists talk too much: Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Hoxha have written many volumes—with contradictory results. Communist theory should be proved in simply words.
Best wishes.
G. Kroiss, Ph.D.
Max Planck and Albert Einstein
I have collected math books from the early 1700s until the late 1900s—and spent tons of my own money on them. There are great singular books, especially Euler’s, but there are none, which give you a synopsis and enough practice.
Here are two authors, which will do this:
Max Planck’s five-volume “Einfuehrung in die Theoretische Physik” (Introduction to Theoretical Physics) which started appearing in and after WW1 are very very sophisticated exercise books requiring the mathematics of the time. Planck expects the reader to calculate through the books. He guides the reader, but the reader has to contribute. The question is where to find the mathematical knowledge. There was a student of the famous David Hilbert, who graduated under his guidance with the 1914 Dissertation “Theoretische Behandlung der Erscheinungen in Verduennten Gasen” (Theoretical Treatment of the Phenomena in Rarified Gases). The student (Bernhard Baule) in and after WW2, published a sequence of excellent little books “Die Mathematik des Naturforshers und Ingenieurs” (Mathematics for Scientists and Engineers, 7 volumes with a total of 720 pages) which give you exactly the knowledge to deal with Planck’s introduction without too much effort. Planck is the gold standard of theoretical physics. It is possible that Baule wrote his books to make Planck more accessible. To give you an impression of Baule: The series begins with a book on calculus (150 pages), which beats every thick modern calculus book. The whole series will give you an overview of mathematics, which you will not receive in any of today’s math departments.
After going through Baule and Planck, you will be able to deal with Einstein.
SCHOOLBOOKS OF THE TIME (prior to WW1)
I recommend:
Author: Professor Dr. Chr. Schmehl
Publisher:Emil Roth, Giessen, Germany
Titles:
1) Lehrbuch der Arithmetik und Algebra (Erster Teil)
2) Lehrbuch der Arithmetik und Algebra (Zweiter Teil)
3) Lehrbuch der ebenen Geometrie für höhere Lehranstalten
4) Lehrbuch der ebenen Trigonometrie für höhere Lehranstalten
Optional:
5) Die Algebra und algebraische Analysis mit Einschluβ einer elementaren Theorie der Determinante (Can be considered as a third volume of 1. And 2.)
Remark: The quality of these books is surprising.
GOOD-BYE
On April 1, 2002, I handed over the INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL THINKING to my daughter Doris.
My whole effort, being truly non-profitable, was to save humankind. To solve this puzzle, drkroiss.com was developed. This difficult and thorny issue stayed puzzling until the solution revealed itself. Let me describe it.
About two thousand years ago, Germanic tribes invaded the Roman empire. They were led by tribal chieftains. Their wagon train took four days to pass. Its route was written in black = burnt and plundered houses and towns—and red = killed locals. At that time, when you saw a mass of foreigners, you had a good chance to be killed by them. That is the origin of racism. We are not out of these times yet. We still have tribal chieftains and racism.
However, we do not live in tribal times any more. People like Max Planck introduced new circumstances:
TODAY, IT MEANS TO BE OR NOT TO BE FOR OUR SPECIES.
Logic has two sides: If you apply it to numbers and geometric objects, you will get its mathematical side. However, logic also has another side, which is largely undeveloped, which is psychological. The chieftains never allowed this side of logic to be developed because it would have robbed them of their power.
DRKROISS.COM SERVES AS A STARTING POINT FOR OTHERS TO DEVELOP THE INTERACTION OF BOTH SIDES.
The suppression of the psychological side of logic globally lead to wide-spread stupidity in the chieftains, whom people brown-nose, and also in the general population.
Therefore, we are roughly in this situation:
Imagine several tribes of monkeys. The majority of them go about their usual business: Eating, fucking, sleeping, hoarding, and brown-nosing—while the chieftains play with a new kind of toy, namely hand grenades. How long do you think nothing is going to happen?